Cloud Applications Engineer

American Honda Motor Co., Inc.•Marysville, OH

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.” We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team. If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future! Job Purpose Cloud Applications Engineer will be an experienced SaaS toolset practitioner. The position is responsible for developing complex business requirements into needed business functionality, along with maintaining, and testing backend systems within the department. This role will gain end to end knowledge of the system ecosystem, helping to support day to day activities, and will focus a few systems in the contract management, sustainability, corporate security and records management areas as needed.

Requirements

Must have a 4 year college-level Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Technology or a related STEM field of study.
5 years’ experience with general software development methodologies, as well as those specific to SaaS Cloud toolsets and platforms including:
Hands-on experience with SaaS configuration of technical and functional settings.
Ability to effectively manage SaaS global attributes, master data, and admin tasks
Experience with coding and configuring of APIs for data extraction and integration
Familiarity with middleware frameworks for connecting systems (SAP, Laserfiche, Salesforce, others)
Understanding procurement, risk management, and compliance workflows
Ability to configure features to enforce compliance and mitigate risks
Experience working in Agile teams, using tools like Jira or Azure DevOps
Strong technical and listening skills
Good analytical skills along with communication and interpersonal skills, presentation skills.
Ability to manage time and diverse activities under deadlines while delivering quality results, on time, on budget
Should be custom and innovation-focused
Be tenacious and curious
Be a continuous learner

Responsibilities

Developing (configuring), maintaining and testing assigned systems.
Becoming very familiar with the customers business needs and priorities.
Getting a complete understanding of the internal and external interfaces to be able to support the day-to-day operation of the applications.
Gaining an in-depth knowledge of the new technology being deployed in the unit.
Supporting the business objectives to deliver value by providing quality IT products and services to Honda business.
Applying continuous improvement methods to resolve quality and other problems in a timely fashion.
Continually considering process improvements.
Working for incremental improvements in operational efficiency, despite obstacles and challenges.
Identifying, evaluating and confirming true root cause of problems.
Using logic and creativity to solve problems.
Gathering and analysing sufficient information prior to making decisions, including risk and long-term implications.
Identifying areas that require strengthening and bringing forward to management.
Executing goals by setting clear milestones and prioritizing activities.
Taking responsibility and accountability for executing plans.
Understanding and working to meet milestone and resource requirements.
Contributing to team alignment on day-to-day operations and plans in progress.
Responding to obstacles by changing approach, process or way of working.
Considering and responding appropriately to the needs of others in the spirit of building collaborative relationships.
Promoting inclusion; reaching out to understand diverse viewpoints and sharing ideas.
Seeking to build internal or external partnerships to better accomplish goals.